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15 December 2012

STOP! SCRUNCHIE TIME.

First of all, I should probably make a confession: I like scunchies. They don't leave kinks, or rip out your hair. They're wonderful.

I wore scrunchies all through lower and middle school. I had velvet ones (black, purple and green). A couple of checked ones. A pouffy white one. A flouro pink knitted one. And, god help me, an orange feather one (for real). At the time of ownership I went to an all girls school that was pretty strict on uniform; one day, in the middle of assembly, I was instructed to "Take that ridiculous Thing" off my head (I wore it at home instead and tortured my mother with it - to add insult to visual injury it left little bits of orange fluff all over the carpet). Eventually my beloved lost all its feathers and I heard my favourite hair accessory denounced my Carrie Bradshaw and co. So died my infatuation.

But it seems that the humble accessory may finally be back, thanks to an endorsement from the beauteous Cara Delevingne and My Crazy Scrunchie, with whom Vivivienne Westwood, no less, commissioned bespoke styles for her Spring Summer 2013 show:

Vivienne Westwood S/S 2013.

The girls behind MCS are Eu Simo Grijalbo and Laura Fraser (who's also responsible for this charming ditty and is best friends with Alice Dellal, perhaps explaining the Westwood connection), and you can read an interview with them here. In the meantime, watch this weird and awesome video for MCS, in which Cara, Suki Waterhouse and Clara Paget have a wild wild west style shoot out.

You knew this day was coming. Especially after the recent nineties resurgence (I mean if flatforms and jellies can make a reappearance, then frankly anything can). So the question is, are you ready for the scrunchie to come back into your life, like a once spurned lover?*"Look at us with our teenage models wearing ankle socks and posing provocatively, OMGSOORIGINAL".

22 comments:

I am SO READY. Bloody love a good scrunchie. When I was 10 I used to layer about five at a time into a pyramid around my ponytail. I hope the world is ready to perfect the art of the scrunchie cone again.

Okay they don't leave kinks in your hair? Hmm... maybe I should give them a second chance. When I was in Sweden a couple of years back the girl I was staying with bought a black velvet one which is pretty nice..